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H. W. LYON & L. LILLINGSTON. METHOD OF MAKING BUTTON HOLE STRIPS.

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HENRY IV. LYON AND LOTTIE LILLINGSTON, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT; SAIDLILLINGSTON ASSIGNOR TO SAID LYON.

METHOD OF MAKING BUTTON-HOLE STRIPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,413, dated October28, 1890.

Application filed December 9, 1389. Serial No. 333,098. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY W. LYON and LOTTIE LILLINGSTON, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfieldand State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in the Method of Making Button-Hole Strips; and we dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to the method of making button-hole strips,withthe end in view to provide an economical and symmetrical strip which maybe readily secured to a corset or other garment.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the unfolded blankfrom which the strip is made; Fig. 2, a plan of the strip made bydoubling the blank; Fig. 3,a cross-section of said strip; Fig. ea detailperspective illustrating the manner of binding the edges of thebutton-holes; Fig. 5, a plan showing the edges of the button-holesbound; Fig. 6, a plan of our completed button-hole strip, and Fig. 7 across-section thereof; Fig. 8, a plan of a modified form of blankunfolded after cutting the flaps therein; Fig. 9, a plan of a stripformed from the blank shown at Fig. 8, the edges of the button-holesbeing bound; Fig. 10, a cross-section of the strip shown at Fig. 9; Fig.11, a plan of such strip partially bound along the edge; Fig. 12, across-section of the strip shown at Fig. 11; Fig. 13, a plan of suchstrip completed, and Fig. let a crosssection of the strip shown at Fig.13.

Similar letters denote like parts in the several figures of thedrawings.

In carrying out our invention we first cut flapsAtransversely withinaprevionsly-folded strip-blank B. These flaps extend throughout thelength of the strip and are formed at suitable intervals in pairs, whosetransverse edges meet to constitute the button holes. The strip beingdoubled, the flaps are of course two ply, and this will be readilycomprehended by reference to Fig. 1,which shows the appearance of thecut blank when unfolded. The fiaps are then caused to distend beyond thestrip by folding the latter as shown at Fig. 4, and binders C, the exactlength of the flaps, are placed over the latter and stitched thereto, asshown at Figs. 4 and 5. A binder D is then stitched along one edge ofthe strip, so as to overlap the ends of the binders C, and thebutton-hole strip thus completed is secured within a corset-waist in anyordinary manner.

Instead of forming the blank as shown at Fig. 1, the strip may be foldedfirst and the flaps then cut in and through the two plies. The gist ofour invention is in this respect resting in the idea of the coincidentflaps formed in the two plies. If desired, the flaps on one ply of thestrip may be out through to the edge thereof, as shown at Fig. 8, sothat when the strip is doubled over the other edge may extend laterally,as shown at Figs. 9 and 10, to constitute a binder, which latter may belapped over the binders C and stitched thereto, as shown at Figs. 11 and12. The binder D may then be stitched over this lapped eye, as shown atFigs. 13 and 14.

Prior to our invention button-holes have been cut in the strip and boundalong their edges; but it is a very difficult matter to put the bindersaround theseedges, and said binders have to be first out into shortsections the width of the edges. By forming the edges of thebutton-holes into flaps and extending the latter, as shown at Fig. 4.,they may be readily bound without bungling, while at the same time thebinder may be used in a continuous length, if desired, and afterward cutoff even with the ends of the flaps.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The method of making button-hole-strip blanks, consisting in formingadjacent flaps transversely within the strip, extending said flapsbeyond the strip, and binding them while thus extended, substantially asset forth.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

HENRY W. LYON. LOTTIE LILLINGSTON. Witnesses:

F. W. SMITH, J 1., J. P. FINCH.

